Journalists, Among Those a Vanity Fair Correspondent, Arrested While Covering Occupy Wall Street

Dozens of journalists—including one of *Vanity Fair’*s own—were among those arrested and detained today while covering the migrating Occupy Wall Street protests. DNAinfo.com, a New York news Web site, reported that journalists from the New York Daily News, The New York Times, the Associated Press, and other news organizations were among the apprehended. Tweets from throughout the day described police treatment of the press:

From Michael Moore/Twitter.

“I cannot remember any time this many reporters were arrested during a protest,” said Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president. The New York Press Club released a statement, too: “[T]he brash manner in which officers ordered reporters off the streets and then made them back off until the actions of the police were almost invisible is outrageous.”